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Doug Shaver · 05-28-2009, 12:35 AM

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just more typical personal attacks on Acharya without even actually reading the blog.

I haven't see the blog, but I browsed through Acharya's Web site several years ago after first hearing something about her.

As a result of that experience, I don't attack her, but I have pretty much ignored her.

Dave31 · 05-28-2009, 07:49 AM

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just more typical personal attacks on Acharya without even actually reading the blog.

I haven't see the blog, but I browsed through Acharya's Web site several years ago after first hearing something about her.

As a result of that experience, I don't attack her, but I have pretty much ignored her.

Ah, thanks for that inadvertent admission that you only skimmed her website "several years ago." So, you've never actually read a single book of hers. We can now move on knowing never to listen to your opinion concerning the work of Acharya S since you're basically ignorant of it. Thanks for admitting your biases. Now if you'd be so kind, why don't you go one step further & explain your prejudice &/or misogyny too?

Here's a clip from the full version of atheist, David Mills review:

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"D.M. Murdock/Acharya S, like all authors on controversial subjects, has many critics. But they all share one commonality: They don't know what they're talking about. Murdock understands many languages and has a breadth of knowledge her critics cannot match. This fact irks the uninformed. Having given a fair hearing to some of her online detractors and their "rebuttal" videos, I have detected not only a lack of knowledge on the part of her critics, but also, in some cases, a thinly disguised misogyny. Objectively speaking, D.M. Murdock is an attractive and dazzlingly brilliant woman. This is more intimidation than some men can handle, even some atheist men. To those who follow the teachings of the Apostle Paul, who forbade women to even speak in church, it "logically" follows that Ms. Murdock should remain silent as well, especially since she is grieving the Holy Ghost. In plain English, Murdock is dealt criticism that would never befall an ugly old man in a monastery. I would like to think that 21st-century America is beyond such juvenile conduct, but that is sadly not the case.

If you live in America and you are considered a "mainstream intellectual," you may proffer the most absurd arguments imaginable-and they are considered all well and good. But if you're viewed as "outside the mainstream," you may proffer the most carefully prepared, incontrovertible evidence possible, and you will nevertheless be viewed cynically by those who cannot be troubled to think through the issues for themselves and who must instead rely upon "appeals to authority" (a logical fallacy). Murdock's critics invariably fall into this slipshod and errant category."

http://stellarhousepublishing.com/david-mills-wwj.html

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Doug Shaver · 05-28-2009, 07:37 PM

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Ah, thanks for that inadvertent admission that you only skimmed her website "several years ago."

There was nothing inadvertent about it. My reference to the time was quite intentional.

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So, you've never actually read a single book of hers.

Yes, that is correct. So what? Are you under the impression that there is something special about all the people whose books I have never read? How about all the people whose books you have never read? Should I infer anything about the names on that list?

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We can now move on knowing never to listen to your opinion concerning the work of Acharya S

If I should ever express an opinion about any of her work other than what was on her Web site a few years ago, then yes, you certainly ought to disregard it.

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Now if you'd be so kind, why don't you go one step further & explain your prejudice &/or misogyny too?

Sure. Just as soon as you explain what I have said that, in your judgment, implies any prejudice or misogyny on my part.

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Here's a clip from the full version of atheist, David Mills review:

Since I know nothing about David Mills, I have no idea why I should care about his opinion, whether on this subject or any other subject.

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But they [Acharya's critics] all share one commonality: They don't know what they're talking about.

When I read something by one of her critics, I can figure out for myself whether they know what they're talking about.

ApostateAbe · 05-29-2009, 03:32 PM

Dave, if you would like to bring forward arguments for specific claims about Jesus, then that is what this forum is for. It is not the best place for advertisements. I suggest you get a job and use the money to pay for Internet pop-up ads for Acharya S's writings.

Tristan Scott · 05-29-2009, 08:34 PM

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You've all been fooled. Aquinas invented Christianity.

Shucks, I thought it was the Pisos.:constern01:

robto · 05-31-2009, 10:26 AM

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...I bring together evidence that a multinational cabal largely composed of Jews, Samaritans, Greeks, Romans and Egyptians created first the Jesus character and then later Christian tradition, eventually in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion.

Ah, yes, the multinational cabal theory of Christian origins. Highly respected in academic circles.

(Is that the same multinational cabal that engineered the 9/11 attacks? Or was it the financial crisis?)

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ApostateAbe Contributor Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: MT Posts: 10,656	Dave, if you would like to bring forward arguments for specific claims about Jesus, then that is what this forum is for. It is not the best place for advertisements. I suggest you get a job and use the money to pay for Internet pop-up ads for Acharya S's writings.

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